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How Technology Investments Destroy and Create Manufacturing Jobs: Firm Evidence From Sweden

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This study draws on a longitudinal (2000−2020) firm‐level panel data set to investigate the relationship between investments in machinery and equipment, and jobs in the Swedish manufacturing sector. It finds a positive link between such investments and job creation in firms. Adding a firm exit indicator also demonstrates that low‐investing manufacturing firms are more likely to exit. Relying on a broad investment indicator, the results confirm findings in several recent European firm‐level studies that use narrower indicators of technological investments and change. In the conclusion, the study attempts to span a bridge between the literature on technology, machines and jobs coming out of economics and business on the one hand, and the sociology of work on the other, to reflect on the relations between technology and jobs in firms.

Source: New Technology Work and Employment

DOI: 10.1111/ntwe.70008

Authors: Martin Henning, Emelie Hane‐Weijman, Ola Bergström

Institutions: University of Gothenburg, Umeå University

Language: English

Topic: Firm Innovation and Growth

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,980